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Bankless

The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Finance. DeFi, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Level up. Go bankless.

Episodes

ROLLUP: SBF 25 Years | Coinbase vs. SEC | Blobs Demand | Blast Controversy

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Mar 29, 20241 hr 9 min

Can Crypto's Broken Moral Compass Be Fixed? | RSA+DH

On today's episode of Bankless Takes we're exploring the current state of crypto's social layer. Are we in this for the right reasons, or has crypto lost the plot? ------ 🖼️ Borrow ETH or USDC with an NFT on NFTFi https://bankless.cc/NFTFi_pod ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo 🗣️TOKU |...

Mar 27, 202438 min

BLAST: The L2 with Native Yield | Pacman

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-pacman-blast-l2 ------ Pacman is one of the most interesting builders in crypto right now. After creating Blur, a disruptive NFT exchange, the crypto wonder kid is targeting the L2 space with his new yield bearing L2 called Blast. In this episode, we cover Pacman’s story, how he built Blur, how he pioneered Points and finally, we get into Blast, the already third largest L2 in TVL. ------ 📣 SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED...

Mar 25, 20242 hr 30 min

ROLLUP: Memecoin Mania | Solana ATH? | Blackrock Ethereum Fund

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Mar 22, 20241 hr 12 min

Is Crypto a Scam? with Crypto Skeptic Patrick McKenzie

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-patrick-mckenzie ------ Why do banks have holidays? Should we redesign the banking system? Is there a future for crypto? Today we’re joined by Patrick McKenzie, an advisor at Stripe who writes about the modern financial system helps us answer these exact questions. First, we talk about the inner workings of the existing banking system. Then we get into crypto, where Patrick shares his reasons for skepticism. ------ ...

Mar 21, 20241 hr 18 min

The 7 Most Bullish Crypto Narratives of 2024

The crypto bull market is here and nothing drives price like a good ol' narrative. On the show today we walk you through the top 7 that we're most excited about to watch unfold during this bull run. Can you guess which one is our favorite? ------ ➡️ Apply to the Cartesi Grants Program here: https://bankless.cc/Cartesi ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/ban...

Mar 20, 20241 hr 2 min

Memecoins: Good or Evil with Ledger & Stephen Cesaro

Today on the show we have two guests debating the merits and costs of crypto memecoins. Ledger (Brian Krogsgard) from the UpOnly podcast thinks that memecoins are financial nihilism that creates room for bad actors and grifters. Stephen Cesaro, from the Alfalfa Podcast, thinks memecoins are something to appreciate and celebrate. Which side are you on? ------ 🥩PRIMESTAKED | MINT primeETH NOW https://bankless.cc/Origin-pod ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.c...

Mar 19, 20241 hr 4 min

214 - L2 Tokens: Bullish or Bearish? with Sassal, Jordi, & Ippolito

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-l2-tokens/ ------ Are Layer2 Tokens bullish or are they just worthless governance tokens? We’ve brought a team of expert panelists to help us answer that exact question. Mike Ippolito, Jordi Alexander and Anthony Sassano explore Layer2 business models, where value is accrued and how to capture that upside. ------ 🥩PRIMESTAKED | MINT primeETH NOW https://bankless.cc/Origin-pod ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE...

Mar 18, 20242 hr 32 min

ROLLUP: Blobs Arrive | BTC New High | ETH ETF? | Bankless 4th Birthday

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Mar 15, 20241 hr 18 min

Dencun 101: Tim Beiko Explains Ethereum’s Upgrade and Beyond

Ethereum's next hard fork is here and we're joined by Tim Beiko from the Ethereum foundation to walk us through and explain what it all means. He shares a comprehensive guide on each and every EIP along with what comes next, Dencun, Pectra, and beyond. If you want to be up to date with the state of all things Ethereum this is the episode for you. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024 ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast -----...

Mar 13, 202455 min

Tokenizing Real World Assets | Robert Leshner

Can we Tokenize the World? Robert Leshner, creator of Compound and one of the forefathers of DeFi, is on a mission to do so. With his new company Superstate, new product, tokenized t-bills and new location, New York city. Robert is trying to bring $300 trillion in TradFI assets on-chain. ------ ➡️ Apply to the Cartesi Grants Program here: https://bankless.cc/Cartesi ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTE...

Mar 12, 20241 hr 14 min

213 - Justin Sun: On Tron, Vitalik, and Becoming Humble

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-justin-sun ------ Justin Sun, the Controversial Founder of TRON has finally entered the chat. This episode is packed with hot takes. Expect to learn why Justin is still in Crypto, why he should’ve copied Ethereum 100% and not just 95%, why he views Vitalik as a goldmine and much more. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024 ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankles...

Mar 11, 20241 hr 8 min

ROLLUP: All Time High Debate | New ETF Record | Wormhole Airdrop

Weekly Rollup 2nd Week of March ----- ➡️ Apply to the Cartesi Grants Program here: https://bankless.cc/Cartesi ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/toku 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https:/...

Mar 08, 20241 hr 8 min

The RFK Interview

An in person interview with presidential candidate RFK Jr. who shares his takes and policies on the state of crypto in the United States. To learn more, visit https://www.kennedy24.com/ ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024 ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP SMARTER https://bankless.cc/uniswap 🔗CELO | CEL...

Mar 07, 20246 min

AI Memecoins & Lessons for Narrative Investing

Ryan and David share another Bankless Takes episode where they discuss their AI memecoin analysis, why AI crypto tokens are a big deal, how to speculate on narratives like AI memecoins (lessons and guidance for “narrative investing”, and what are the next big narratives this cycle. ------ 🌐 CARTESI | MODULAR EXECUTION ON LINUX https://bit.ly/3SYkjzF ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANG...

Mar 06, 202458 min

212 - Tether CEO on Their $100B Stablecoin ($USDT)

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether, the $100 Billion stablecoin company that owns more U.S. Treasuries than most countries. We explore why Tether is winning, how it’s helping people in emerging markets and what really backs a $USDT. We also cover the state of the stablecoin regulation and even market competitors. Tether has been and it’s still a target of Fud in the Crypto industry. Paolo is here to refute that Fud and much more. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen202...

Mar 04, 20241 hr 21 min

ROLLUP: Bitcoin ATH's In Sight | Coinbase Crashes | Blast Mainnet Live

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Mar 01, 20241 hr 16 min

Ethereum and The Trillion Dollar Internet Bond | Chris Perkins

Chris Perkins has a fascinating background as a marine who was shot at in Iraq, was at Lehman bros when it all came crashing down, was a Citigroup trying to pick up the piece of the financial crisis where he first ran across Gary Gensler, and now he’s in crypto. We talk about all that, but that’s not even the main event. The Main Event is Ether the asset and a new reference rate he’s building on top of it. This sounds in the weeds but it’s actually actually key to unlocking trillions in new fina...

Feb 29, 20242 hr 35 min

Justin Drake & Ben Fisch: The United Rollups of Ethereum

In today’s episode, we do a shared sequencing deep dive with repeat guest, Mr. Moonmath himself, the Blockchain Brainiac, and the Ethereum Evangelist– Justin "The Juggernaut" Drake. Justin is joined by The Sultan of Sequencing, the Espresso Emperor, the Cross-Rollup Connoisseur himself, Ben, the Blockchain Barista Fisch. Where the fragments of Ethereum threaten to turn the digital ecosystem into a maze of confusion, these two men stand tall, illuminating the way, to come and save us from the lab...

Feb 28, 20242 hr 41 min

Nic Carter: The Second Bitcoin Civil War

Nic Carter rejoins the podcast to discuss Bitcoin’s second civil war. When did it begin? Where are the party lines drawn? How will it end? Possible solutions? David and Nic dig into all of these questions and much more. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/SUI-podcast ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON ...

Feb 27, 20241 hr 10 min

211 - Is DA a Good Business Model? - Neel Somani & Jon Charbonneau

What’s Data Availability (DA) and what’s its Business Model? In this episode we’re welcomed by Jon Charbonneau, researcher-investor at DBA and Neel Somani, CEO of Eclipse. We unpack everything Data Availability from what it unlocks to its economics. We also get into the DA Market covering participants like Celestia and EigenDA. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SP...

Feb 26, 20242 hr 33 min

ROLLUP: $ETH 3k! | TradFi Stonks ATHs | $STRK Now Live | Yuga Acquires PROOF

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Feb 23, 20241 hr 10 min

The LRT Episode

Welcome to the LRT episode, covering the entire playing field of liquid restaking projects and what makes each one unique and special. On the show we have representatives from Ion, Ether.fi, Puffer, Kelp, Swell and Renzo making this your one stop to go from zero to expert on the restaking landscape. ------ 🏹 USE PODCAST24 FOR 10% OFF https://bankless.cc/Citizen2024 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON ht...

Feb 22, 20242 hr 35 min

Are Bitcoin L2s Real? with David Seroy (Bitcoin Dave)

On today’s episode we have Bitcoin wizard, David Seroy on the show! He’s an armchair researcher in the Bitcoin rollup ecosystem. He really likes Bitcoin, and he really likes projects that are building on Bitcoin. We’ve got a lot of questions on Bitcoin today, especially those that revolve around Bitcoin L2s. Are they real? David’s got answers. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast --...

Feb 21, 20241 hr 5 min

210 - Endgame 2.0: A Guide to Vitalik’s Ethereum Roadmap with Mike & Dom

✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-endgame-vitalik-ethereum-roadmap ------ Welcome to Part 2 of Vitalik’s Endgame, where Vitalik’s nominees and Ethereum Foundation Researchers, Mike Neuder & Domothy walk us through the updated Ethereum Roadmap. This roadmap is composed of 6 urges: - The Merge: Proof of Stake - The Surge: Improve throughput and DA - The Scourge: MEV - The Verge: Running validator anywhere with Verkle Trees - The Purge: Eliminate techn...

Feb 19, 20242 hr 26 min

The Culture of Starknet with Abdel Bakhta

Today, we have a classic LayerZero style episode with nonother than Abdel Bakhta. Abdel is the Head of Ecosystem at Starkware and is onboarding new species to the Least Aligned L2, Starknet. We cover the origins of Starkware and how its culture has evolved, there’s also a ton of Starkware Project Alpha on this episode so stay tuned. ---- 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS...

Feb 18, 20241 hr 3 min

A Conversation with Michael Ippolito

David livestreams with Blockworks's Mike Ippolito in a freestyle conversation covering all things crypto. ------ 📣SUI | Register for Sui Basecamp https://bankless.cc/sui-basecamp ------ 🎧Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON https://bankless.cc/Celo 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION https://bankless.cc/toku 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 ...

Feb 17, 20241 hr 16 min

ROLLUP: BTC $1T Market Cap | More ETH ETF Filings | $STRK Airdrop Pushback?

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Feb 16, 20241 hr 5 min

The Pudgy Penguins Comeback Story with Luca Netz

Today on the show we're joined by Luca Netz, the new owner of Pudgy Penguins. Luca walks us through his story of how he got here, from a less than ideal childhood, to a full blown NFT empire. In addition to a massive new deal with Walmart, he also lays out the case for why he thinks the bright future for Pudgy Penguins has only just begun. ------ ❎ Visit dydx.exchange to learn about dYdX Chain https://dydx.zone/3SfJTP7 ------ 🎧 Listen On Your Favorite Podcast Player: https://bankless.cc/Podcast...

Feb 15, 20241 hr 18 min

Starknet Token Launch Is Here! ($STRK)

The Stark token is here! After waiting for almost 6 years we're thrilled to share that one of the earliest and most promising layer 2's has just released official details on their token, STRK. They are provisioning it to users of Starknet, to stakers in the Ethereum ecosystem, open source developers and so many more. A total of 1.3 Million wallets are eligible to receive the $STRK token, are you one of them? Joining us today is Starkware founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, and Starknet CEO Diego Oli...

Feb 14, 202452 min